idiotking: I believe you're thinking of The Lost Worlds of 2001 by Clarke, which includes lots of chronicling - quite entertaining, yes - as well as unused chapters of his novel version of 2001. The book mentioned by Matt of Sleaford is likely The Making of Kubrick's 2001, edited by Jerome Agel, which I've owned since…

Doesn't seem to be online, but there is a detailed and hilarious takedown of Outland by Harlan Ellison: "Outland: Out of its mind but, sadly, not out of sight" in Omni's Screen Flights/Screen Fantasies edited by Danny Peary (Doubleday, 1984).

Yes, both were indeed leftover Phase II story treatments.

Not sure how intelligent his character in Blow Out was.

"Devil's Due" actually was produced a few seasons later. "The Child" did lead off season 2.

The Kubrick movie would have used Saturn too, but the special effects department couldn't get the rings right and Jupiter was substituted.

Brian's Song

You owe me a yellow-bottletop kosher-for-Passover real-sugar no-corn-syrup Coke.

"A few months later" after when? None of that took place until the post-Empire Strikes Back rerelease.

Sure, the subtitle was likely added by the marketing department as the theatrical premiere approached, but it's not part of the actual title of the movie (it's not a question of whether "space odyssey" or "year we make contact" is ever said by a character).

Um… Helen Mirren is of Russian heritage (on her father's side).

Please correct the movie title. The movie is called simply 2010.

Always glad to use my theory knowledge for the benefit of others, especially since I don't (usually) make use of my master of music degree in my day job.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Not "all over the place," I'd say, but rather an extended or elaborated version of typical circle-of-fifths motion. That is, IV-vii-iii-vi-ii-V-I (with IV on the word "way") is extended into IV-ii-V-iii-VI-ii-(first inversion of half-diminished ii7)-V-I. Haven't heard the record in a while, but the iii and VI [i.e.,…

Even better, the earlier Lehrer song "We Will All Go Together When We Go." Both songs are very peppy considering the topic…

I love the effect of the modulation in "Back on the Chain Gang" (as I noted last year on a different thread): The main body of the song is in D major, then there's a contrasting segment in D minor, which then moves up to E major during "making us part," leading into the near-repeat of the first verse, whereupon there…

"The Omega Glory" had actually been conceived by Roddenberry more than two years earlier, long before the series began. It was one of three candidate stories offered to NBC for the second pilot after the first one was completed and rejected (i.e., "The Cage" with Jeffrey Hunter as captain, later transformed into the…

Honestly, nothing short of Bizarro Superman would get me into the theater.

As far as I know, only one track - the instrumental "Flying" from Magical Mystery Tour - was credited to all four.